> There isn’t a “maybe” human extinction within known parameters. There isn’t even an end to industrial civilisation without nukes
What the hell? Let's completely put climate change and mass extinction (which are huge problems on their own) aside for a moment.
Do you know what threatens the collapse of the industrial civilisation? The end of fossil fuels. That's a very real problem right here right now. Without the climate change and mass extinction problems, that would still be a reason for our industrial civilisation to collapse soon.
What the hell? Let's completely put climate change and mass extinction (which are huge problems on their own) aside for a moment.
Do you know what threatens the collapse of the industrial civilisation? The end of fossil fuels. That's a very real problem right here right now. Without the climate change and mass extinction problems, that would still be a reason for our industrial civilisation to collapse soon.
Luckily, the solution to all of those 3 problems is the same: cut down emissions, do less with less. A good introduction to the problem, I find, is here: https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-End-Illustrated-Climate...